ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,678, issued on June 24, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Method and system for efficient input/output transfer in network devices" was invented by Amir Roozbeh (Stockholm), Alireza Farshin (Stockholm), Dejan Kostic (Solna, Sweden) and Gerald Q Maguire Jr. (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for selective direct access to a processing unit of a network device are described. A network interface of the network device receives packets of a flow. The network interface determines based on attributes of the packets that the packets are to be directly sent to the processing unit. ...